Ahhhh season 3 has started bitches! My thoughts on the premiere: Pro's it's always nice to get another variation of ponies, Pinkie & Rarity had the best bits of the show & it's nice to see all the other royal ponies are not forgotten. Also finally a certain character finally gets respect.

Cons: Sombra. I'm sorry but Sombra is a weak as all hell villain. Sure he imprisoned an entire race of ponies but outside of that there was NOTHING to his character he didn't have the charm & fun of Discord or the creepy & awesome premise of The Changlings just a giant puff of smoke (which by the way STOP that shit already entertainment industry it didn't work on that piece of shit movie FF2 it didn't work well in green lantern & it didn't work here the only time it ever worked was in Ferngully)

Anyway decent start to the season now onto slapstick. Ah it's good to be back.

Not sure waht I have today (it'll take a while for the episode to digest in my mind before I start really noticing things but here is what I have now

1. While King Sombra was desribed as a unicorn, we seem to have another subspecies in him. Specifically with the stokier build and forward pointing slightly curved and unspiraled horn, he looks like the ancient folkloric unicorn predecessor called a karakadann

2. While I get why the Mane 6 (well actually the Mane 6 +Shinging Armor and Cadence) "went crystal" when the spell came in force, why did some of them also change appearace then? Twilights mane went up into a bun, I think AJ's hat dissapeared again etc. (actually they looked a lot like they did when they were Cadence's Bridesmaids. Odd effect for the spell to have.

"For I have heard the Song of War, and to me, it sounds just like "Please, Mister Custer.""

Cogito Ergot Sum, "I think there is something wrong with this rye bread." (Aplogies to Seafrol.)

ok, just saw it and i loved the Crystal ponies, they are so cool and sparkly! but maybe thats the girly Rarity in me lol

Sombra was very boring but i think this episode was mostly suppose to center around Twilight so its all good

i was wondering something during the premiere also, and that is, is Cadence and Shining Armor the rulers of the Crystal Empire? the Crystal ponies did call Cadence "the Crystal Princess" so it seems so...

Nice episode, meh villain. I guess he just serves as a plot device and not an actual villain.

And for those who were talking about Luna, let me just toss this in. During EQLA, someone asked the writers about Luna's disappearance during the royal wedding. They replied that it has a purpose that will be revealed in the future. I'm looking up for that part, will post a link later.

That's a ton of foreshadowing in those 2 episodes.

I don't really need spoiler these do I? I haven't really mentioned the content of the episode.

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Oh, for anyone who doesn't know the Gak joke, Gak is some sort of slime toy that got advertised a lot during the season premier, even thrice in a row. A few hours later Gak got ponified and get its own ask tumblr.

Mon-Kitsune wrote:Not sure waht I have today (it'll take a while for the episode to digest in my mind before I start really noticing things but here is what I have now

1. While King Sombra was desribed as a unicorn, we seem to have another subspecies in him. Specifically with the stokier build and forward pointing slightly curved and unspiraled horn, he looks like the ancient folkloric unicorn predecessor called a karakadann

2. While I get why the Mane 6 (well actually the Mane 6 +Shinging Armor and Cadence) "went crystal" when the spell came in force, why did some of them also change appearace then? Twilights mane went up into a bun, I think AJ's hat dissapeared again etc. (actually they looked a lot like they did when they were Cadence's Bridesmaids. Odd effect for the spell to have.

1. I figured it was an aftereffect using dark magic for too long. Celestia and Twilight both took on a couple of his features when using it, so its not exclusive to him.

2. Most likely just an additional effect of the crystal heart and to just to make them look pretty.

Found it, here's the writers' reply about the question of Luna's whereabouts during the Royal wedding. They said more will be revealed in the future. And judging by Luna's attitude during the episode, Order's theory might be correct.

Biostar wrote: Where has that symbol showed up before? When I saw it I was thinking:

"Swirls and stars? Stars and swirls..."

"Starswirl the Bearded?"

But that's just me.

It's almost a 100% chance. He is implied to be one the greatest magic user in history, so I don't think there's a higher level than that in terms of magic. Celestia and Luna are powerful, but their talent is not magic, and as shown in the S2 finale, it's not hard to get stronger than them.

About the villain, I can sort of accept him given how the episode played out, but shouldn't they have at least included his motive? I mean, Luna became bitter and turned into NMM because she was bitter that no one appreciate her, Discord did it because it was fun, and Chrysalis needs to feed her subjects, but what was King Sombra 's purpose?

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ugh i don't really understand the Gak thing, i mean, it's just a dumb toy that got a lot of ads, but its not very specialits a pretty dumb toy for kids, too, like i can't imagine any child wanting oneseriously, 75% of the comments on the already linked episode were about Gak, i just don't get it i guessalso, that Gak pony is kinda gross looking, isn't it? O.o

Haruhi5 wrote:ugh i don't really understand the Gak thing, i mean, it's just a dumb toy that got a lot of ads, but its not very specialits a pretty dumb toy for kids, too, like i can't imagine any child wanting oneseriously, 75% of the comments on the already linked episode were about Gak, i just don't get it i guessalso, that Gak pony is kinda gross looking, isn't it?

It's just how this fanbase works. Something weird comes up, it will get ponified. And now there will be people who will buy the Gak toy and make pony sculptures out of it.

Marquis de Soth wrote: He was really just a literary device. The episode was really about Twilight and Spike and how they've grown.

I know, but they should have at least explained what he wanted out of all that. Was he evil because it was fun to see others' misery, because he thirst for power, or for what reason? I don't imagine putting a few lines in the episode to explain that would have been a problem?

Also, now that I have seen both Celestia and Twilight using dark magic, I really want to see an episode where one of them get corrupted . I know there will be a new wave of evil Twilight or Celestia fanfic after this.

Also, Pinkie Pie's true form (unknown episode spoiler). I don't recommend seeing it unless you have seen the commercial.

Sorry but am I the only one who thinks that King Sombra wasn't as bad as a lot of people keep saying. Sure he wasn't the greatest villain we've had but it's partly because he wasn't at full power when he was defeated. He was a mere shadow for most of the episode and the Mane 6 were trying to keep him out and not getting rid of him more than anything. I don't know, just seems like he's getting too much hate from people.

There is also something I was wondering about the dark magic. Could it be that the dark magic corrupted Luna into NMM or maybe Sombra was the one who corrupted her. It just seems to me that this won't be the last we see of Sombra or at least hear about him. I'm more curious on what Luna's whole deal was during the episodes anyways. She seemed sorta on edge.

Here's an interesting story. Yesterday, out of sheer boredom after a project at school my class was working, I started watching some GunCakes PMVs. Then some guys in my class behind me are like 'thafuck'er you watching'? I says, 'whatever the fuck I want'. Then some of em start getting behind me watching what I was watching; the part where the Changelings start meteoring all over Canterlot.

Why am I telling you this? Because I think if it happens again, I'm gonna show them the part where Prince SA gets covered up in Sombra's 'body'. Dat staring-into-danger moment, oh lord..

Oh and it's likely Luna's probably gonna start teaching. We get Dark magic and a Dark-style villain, who's to say?

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The big problem is that he's very nebulous at best. The last three major villains have been very physical in their presence and the stakes were made very clear with each. With Sombra, we get a very vague idea of some threat but it's not as close to home as the last ones were. However, I still feel that Sombra works for what he actually was, a generic threat to show that the main characters, particularly Spike and Twilight have had some major growths since the first episode of season one.

I think Sombra's villain sorta rides on paranoia. It's like the Majora's Mask Moon. There's this whole sense of doom, but it isn't really, really there until it's dead close, like -12 Hours Remaining-. Example, after the whole haybed scene with Fluttershy and Dash, you see houses turning into dark crystals in the background. Because of the angle and hypothetical size of them, I was like, 'Oh fuck it's right behind them! O.O'